The Low Orbit Ion Cannon is an HTTP-based attack tool used to carry out distributed denial-of-service attacks. Created as a network stress-testing tool, LOIC has been used in several high-profile attacks against commercial and organized sites/entities.

IMPORTANCE

Medium. This tool is being used in conjunction with the ‘Operation Payback’ attacks.

MCAFEE PRODUCT COVERAGE

DAT FILES

Partial coverage (via file reputation) is available on systems with Global Threat Intelligence (formerly known as Artemis) enabled.

VIRUS SCAN ENTERPRISE SCAN BOP

Under analysis

HOST IPS

Under analysis

NETWORK SECURITY PLATFORM

The UDS Release of December 9 (UDS-IRC: Possible Operation Payback IRC Activities Detected) provides coverage for the network traffic generated by this tool when communicating with specific IRC servers.